The Elephant Whisperers made history by becoming the first Indian documentary to win an Oscar.
On the first anniversary of the Award, we present the first public screening of the film in Bangalore! The documentary tells the story of an indigenous couple named Bomman and Bellie as they care for an orphaned baby elephant and explores the precious bond between the animal and his caretakers.
The Elephant Whisperers
by Kartiki Gonsalves
2022 | 41 min. | Tamil & Jennu Kurumba with English subtitles
Film courtesy: Netflix
Kartiki Gonsalves is an Academy Award winning Director and filmmaker. Gonsalves is the founder of Earth Spectrum, an organisation founded in 2018, which uses the power of storytelling to raise awareness about biodiversity and cultural life.
The screening will be followed by a conversation on Bio-Diversity between the filmmaker and the ecologist Dr Raman Sukumar.
Dr R. Sukumar is a Professor at the Centre for Ecological Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is also the Managing Trustee, Asian Nature Conservation Foundation and a Project Leader, Wildlife Trust Alliance, New York. His areas of interest are wildlife ecology (Asian elephant ecology and management; population dynamics; wildlife-human conflicts), tropical forest ecology (diversity, structure and dynamics of tropical forests), and climate change (reconstructing Quaternary climate change; assessing impacts of future climate change on forests and biodiversity).
